时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   In his final years, he rarely talked to anyone. As a boy, he had talked to everyone. He was curious about everything. He asked everyone questions about everything. As he got older, he began to notice something. People didn't answer his questions as often as they used to. Sometimes people didn't answer his questions at all. Many times they answered his question with their own questions: Who knows? Who cares? Are you writing a book? So he gradually stopped asking questions of people. Then he gradually stopped talking to people. After he died, his brother collected his belongings 1, including his computer. One of his computer files was his journal 2. It was over 4,500 pages long. The first sentences were: Why bother talking? People are just too busy to listen. I write because my computer accepts my every word. It never ignores me. It never patronizes me. It never interrupts me.



1 belongings
n.私人物品,私人财物
  • I put a few personal belongings in a bag.我把几件私人物品装进包中。
  • Your personal belongings are not dutiable.个人物品不用纳税。
2 journal
n.日志,日记;议事录;日记帐;杂志,定期刊物
  • He kept a journal during his visit to Japan.他在访问日本期间坚持记日记。
  • He got a job as editor of a trade journal.他找到了一份当商业杂志编辑的工作。
学英语单词
5-bergapten
AHSA
alsopahok
arouser
athwart ship permanent magnetism
bartolozzi
beckles
beets
bowker-saurs
brachyeardia
british thermal unit(btu)
Brodie's reaction
BTO flat
bugspray
business communities
chamaebuxus
Clem
clickwrap
contraction of bank money
Dalton-in-Furness
data flow program
Dead End Kid, dead-end kid
Depardieu
detached dowel crown
direct sowing
dislocation of the hip joint
draughthorse
East Lutton
effluenced
epigram
extension crystallization
face the fact
fenaclon
fibreglasses
fingersmith
fluorographic study
global reputation
golden calla
hair-clippers
hepaticostomy
hits the bottle
horrisonant
iliau
insist on/upon
International Finance Corporation Agreement
jossup
Kalioalunite
less-dense
Mahlberg
meaningful memory
mechanically foamed plastic
milligravities
mini-tripods
n.m
needle blights
neolucanus maxinus vendli
Nieuwvliet
NM (not measured)
OR (order register)
overcurrent ground relaying system
palaeontological
PASD
peeling out
PELATOPLEURIFORMES
perplexed
polarized armature
preforming machine
product moment
quasi-superordinates
ravindra
re-awakens
reflected light microscope
rescue from
saltgrass
Santo Domingo
Satrup
screened coal
set sb at liberty
side-tipper
slitherier
sodium alizarinesulfonate
soil resources inventory
soluble tartar
sterlingite ( (1)zincite (2)muscovite)
subrogates
sweep hold-off
Teutonically
thaumastocheles japonicus
the book of common prayer
tie someone to something
tilted electron gun
timespan
tree circuit
turn ons
unbewept
variable volume
voluntary salvage
Wertherian
wine-and-food
yardgrasses
Zabrze
zonnebekes